Re: [Qgis-developer] Font for tests

2014-01-10 Thread aperi2007 

The arial is not available on linux machines.

But the liberation Fonts are an Arial with an opensource licensing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
We use they usually with MapServer and qgis-server.

If interested, follow this link for the download.
https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

Regards,
A.

On 10/01/2014 19:45, Larry Shaffer wrote:

Hi Matthias,

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Matthias Kuhn > wrote:


Hi,

I was looking at some of the tests, and realized, that the
composerhtml test fails because of some slight font differences.

Firebug tells me that the following fonts are used (defined by
bootstrap.css):

"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif

I don't have any of these Helvetica fonts installed and I am not
sure about their licensing, but it seems that no package includes
them just like that. Does anybody know a font which is just
available out of the box on all plattforms to get around such
issues? Arial maybe?

This option seems much better to me than fixing things with a
tolerance param.


About a year ago, I added a custom built, very lightweight font, 
FreeSansQGIS, just for tests [0], based off of FreeSans. Usage info is 
explained in its README [1], notably that the font not be installed on 
the system. It is intended to be loaded on-the-fly via Qt's 
font-handling routines, and is already available in the utilities.py 
module via loadTestFont() [2].


I have also added it to the startup functionality of the QGIS app and 
server [3], which loads the font if the testdata directory is 
available, e.g. when running ctest from build directory. Feel free to 
fix anything wrong with my implementation.


Regardless, I have still seen differences in how the same font is 
drawn by the different systems' window server, so some amount of 
tolerance (or a set of anomalies) is probably always going to be 
needed. Though, hopefully that's not a moving target because of the 
standardized test font.


Recently I came across another test font used by the MapServer 
project, which we might also consider using because it also has bold 
face [4]. Not sure how it compares to the 'normal' Vera font. However, 
I think if it is used it should still be renamed to FreeSansQGIS to 
avoid conflict with installed fonts, and make it easily searchable in 
the QFontDatabase.


[0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/tests/testdata/font
[1] 
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/tests/testdata/font/FreeSansQGIS-README.txt
[2] 
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/tests/src/python/utilities.py#L218-L228

[3] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/main.cpp#L739-L746
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/mapserver/qgis_map_serv.cpp#L244-L253
[4] https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/tree/master/tests/vera

Regards,

Larry

Have a nice weekend,
Matthias
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Font for tests

2014-01-10 Thread Larry Shaffer 
Hi Matthias,

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking at some of the tests, and realized, that the composerhtml
> test fails because of some slight font differences.
>

We might also consider creating a Web font version of FreeSansQGIS.ttf
specifically to load into HTML tests.


> Firebug tells me that the following fonts are used (defined by
> bootstrap.css):
>
> "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif
>
> I don't have any of these Helvetica fonts installed and I am not sure
> about their licensing, but it seems that no package includes them just like
> that. Does anybody know a font which is just available out of the box on
> all plattforms to get around such issues? Arial maybe?
>
> This option seems much better to me than fixing things with a tolerance
> param.
>
> Have a nice weekend,
> Matthias
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Re: [Qgis-developer] Font for tests

2014-01-10 Thread Larry Shaffer 
Hi Matthias,

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Matthias Kuhn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking at some of the tests, and realized, that the composerhtml
> test fails because of some slight font differences.
>
> Firebug tells me that the following fonts are used (defined by
> bootstrap.css):
>
> "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif
>
> I don't have any of these Helvetica fonts installed and I am not sure
> about their licensing, but it seems that no package includes them just like
> that. Does anybody know a font which is just available out of the box on
> all plattforms to get around such issues? Arial maybe?
>
> This option seems much better to me than fixing things with a tolerance
> param.
>

About a year ago, I added a custom built, very lightweight font,
FreeSansQGIS, just for tests [0], based off of FreeSans. Usage info is
explained in its README [1], notably that the font not be installed on the
system. It is intended to be loaded on-the-fly via Qt's font-handling
routines, and is already available in the utilities.py module via
loadTestFont() [2].

I have also added it to the startup functionality of the QGIS app and
server [3], which loads the font if the testdata directory is available,
e.g. when running ctest from build directory. Feel free to fix anything
wrong with my implementation.

Regardless, I have still seen differences in how the same font is drawn by
the different systems' window server, so some amount of tolerance (or a set
of anomalies) is probably always going to be needed. Though, hopefully
that's not a moving target because of the standardized test font.

Recently I came across another test font used by the MapServer project,
which we might also consider using because it also has bold face [4]. Not
sure how it compares to the 'normal' Vera font. However, I think if it is
used it should still be renamed to FreeSansQGIS to avoid conflict with
installed fonts, and make it easily searchable in the QFontDatabase.

[0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/tests/testdata/font
[1]
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/tests/testdata/font/FreeSansQGIS-README.txt
[2]
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/tests/src/python/utilities.py#L218-L228
[3] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/main.cpp#L739-L746

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/mapserver/qgis_map_serv.cpp#L244-L253
[4] https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/tree/master/tests/vera

Regards,

Larry



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[Qgis-developer] Font for tests

2014-01-10 Thread Matthias Kuhn 

Hi,

I was looking at some of the tests, and realized, that the composerhtml 
test fails because of some slight font differences.


Firebug tells me that the following fonts are used (defined by 
bootstrap.css):


"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif

I don't have any of these Helvetica fonts installed and I am not sure 
about their licensing, but it seems that no package includes them just 
like that. Does anybody know a font which is just available out of the 
box on all plattforms to get around such issues? Arial maybe?


This option seems much better to me than fixing things with a tolerance 
param.


Have a nice weekend,
Matthias
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